WAPP NEWS

Participation in 1st EAC conference

WAPP Board member Kateryna Ovcharek from Ukraine participated in the 1st European Association of Councelling (EAC) conference in Valjevo/Petnica, Serbia, 22-24 May 2015, where she held a keynote lecture and a workshop on Positive Psychotherapy.

She handed a certificate of partnership to the president of the Serbian Association of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Coaching.

Possibilities of future cooperation with the EAC concerning trainings for counselors were discussed and will be intensified soon. We will keep you informed.

Recertification of Basic and Master Trainers of Positive Psychotherapy

To guarantee the high quality of our Positive Psychotherapy trainings, WAPP has decided to start a recertification process of trainer diplomas.

Basic and Master Trainer diplomas were issued for a limited validity of 5 years in the past. However, the process of recertification has not been organized and started yet.

Therefore - and to have an impression of the work of our trainers -, WAPP decided to renew all trainer licenses that are older than 2 years.

This will basically serve to improve the quality of our trainings and help to standardize the training conditions for everyone, trainers and students.

This first period of recertification starts from now on and will end 31 December 2016.

We kindly ask you as trainers to send us information on

their work as trainer in seminars in the past two years (how many seminars have you conducted, and where, who was the organizer?

their participation in PPT conferences (congresses, national conferences),

their participation in trainer seminars (usually minimum all two years in International or National Trainer Seminars as part of continuing professional education)

their intention to join the International Trainer Seminar (ITS) in Wiesbaden in 2015 or 2016

their therapeutic work (how many patients do you have weekly?),

If you are a trainer and intend to recertify your license, please fill in the recertification form and send it back to the WAPP Head Office (wapppositum.org, fax or post as indicated on the form). The applications will be evaluated by the WAPP Recertification Committee. During the evaluation process you might be asked to send more documents or material regarding your work. But please do not send any originals or copies yet. The Committee will contact you after the evaluation or in case of further questions.

For your renewed license we kindly ask you to submit an administration fee of 20 € for Basic Trainers and 50 € for Master Trainers.

Board members will also undergo the recertification process.

The renewed licenses will be valid for another 5 years. Firstly issued Basic Trainer licenses will be valid for 2 years, after renewal they will be valid for 5 years. New Master Trainer licenses are valid for 5 years. Expiration will from now on be indicated on the diplomas.

If you have any questions, materials or ideas to share, don´t hesitate to contact the Head Office.

Advisory Council of Associations and Centers for Positive Psychotherapy (ACAC)

WAPP intents to establish an “Advisory Council of Associations and Centers” (ACAC), which will be an important new organ within our association.

There is a need for more contact to and among the Centers and National Associations of Positive Psychotherapy. We see a large treasure of knowledge and experience in your institutions, which could be shared and multiplied for the profit of all of us. At the same time, the Board would like to involve more members actively in the work of our Association.

In its January meeting, the Board decided to establish this Council, which will consist of representatives of each Center and Association that is officially recognized by WAPP.

Every Association may appoint two representatives to serve in the Council.

Every Center can appoint one representative.

These representatives should be familiar with the work of the Center or Association and the psychotherapy situation of his/her country, and should not be a member of the WAPP Board.

It is planned that the Council meets once a year directly before or after the International Trainer Seminar. The Council will have an advisory function to the Board of Directors. This means, the Council’s members will meet and discuss current issues defined either by themselves or by the WAPP Board and will report about these to the Board. The Council will give its advice and suggestions to the WAPP Board.

The Council will also have a networking function for its members. Issues concerning the work of Centers and Associations can be discussed among them directly. There will be an exchange of ideas and experience, preferably without interference of the WAPP Board, to which only reports will be given.

Please discuss this proposal within your Center or Association and send us the names of your representatives, if you haven’t yet. Please also send us a copy or scan of your Center or Association Agreement with WAPP. Only those Centers and Associations that have a current agreement with WAPP will be present in the Council. When you are not sure, if such an agreement exists, please contact us anytime.

A first meeting of the new Council will take place in the course of this year’s ITS in Wiesbaden.

Please send us the information (name and email-address) of your representative/s and your agreement with WAPP as soon as possible. Thank you!

We are looking forward to a very fruitful discourse with the Advisory Council of Associations and Centers and to many innovative ideas.

16th International Trainer Seminar (ITS)

Save the date!

The 16th International Trainer Seminar (ITS) 2015 will take place 19-22 August 2015 in Wiesbaden, Germany, in the WIAP Academy, Luisenstrasse 28.

A first announcement with all relevant information will be sent out to all trainers of Positive Psychotherapy soon. Please save the date!

We are looking forward to welcoming our trainers in Wiesbaden again this summer!

Achivements of Positive Psychotherapy in Ukraine

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, awarded the Order of Princess Olga to our colleague, the graduate of the Ukrainian Institute of Positive Psychotherapy (UIPP) of 2012, Positive Psychotherapist Tatyana Vatulova, for her outstanding merits related to her work and help to the citizens who suffered because of the war actions in Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

Congratulations from WAPP!

Main Meeting of WAPP Board of Directors

The WAPP Board of Directors meets twice a year for a main (two days) and a smaller meeting (3 to 4 hours). The main meeting usually takes place in Wiesbaden in January and the second meeting in the course of an International Trainer Seminar or Congress in the summer or autumn.

In our next WAPP newsletter we will inform you about their main decisions.

6th World Congress of Positve Psychotherapy 2014

The 6th World Congress for Positive Psychotherapy, 17-22 November 2014, in Kemer/Antalya, Turkey, was a big success!

We wish to thank all participants, lecturers, organizers and guests! You were the ones who made this congress such a vivid, spirited and scientific encounter. Thank you for the fruitful discourse! The congress had been a success in any respect: scientifically, atmospheric and in organizational terms. With about 200 partipicants from 27 countries and 101 contributions (keynotes, lectures, workshops, panel discussions), a beautiful hotel and beach, and a very special general program this congress provided the chance for everyone to participate and take home with them a refreshed spirit and knowledge of Positive Psychotherapy.

Election of new President and Board of Directors 2014-2016

The election of the new WAPP President and Board of Directors took place by postal voting and at the general assembly of WAPP during the 6th World Congress for Positive Psychotherapy in Kemer, Turkey, on 20 November 2014.

66 votes were sent to us by email, 129 members voted in person at the assembly. So the overall number of voters was 195.

President and Board members were elected separately. Every member had one vote for the president and 7 votes for Board members. Mrs. Manije Peseschkian as representative of the Peseschkian Foundation is set as Board member and needs not to be elected.

News from China

Our Master trainers Gabriela Hum and Pavel Frolov travelled to China in August 2014 to complete the latest Master Course seminar and refresh old and make new contacts in Beijing.

It was a very fruitful and positive encounter. All Master Course examinees passed the exams! Congratulations from WAPP!

The trainers also met with professionals of the psychotherapy field and possible future organizers of trainings in Positive Psychotherapy aiming at different target groups. We are very thankful for this opportunity and the chance to keep up our work in this important country.

International Regional Symposium on PPT, Istanbul

The International Regional Symposium "œInner and outer conflicts of ours: Resolution with Positive Psychotherapy",

organized by Dr. Rukiye Hayran, successfully took place at the Isik University in Istanbul on 20-22 June 2014.

We wish to thank the organizing team, the lecturers, participants and guests for making this a special and very informative encounter! Thank you for your contributions and for constantly spreading and improving our method!

Catherine and Hamid Peseschkian's visit to Romania

Between 9 - 10 of June 2014 Romanian Positive Psychotherapy Association (RPPA) was honored to have Hamid and Catherine Peseschkian as guests in Cluj-Napoca, the birth-town of PPT in Romania.

There were several events organized for psychologists, medical doctors, psychotherapists from Transilvania. On 9 of June RPPA and Eurosan Medical Center organized an evening of Positive Psychotherapy, where Hamid Peseschkian presented the concept of psychovampires and talk about how we can deal in a positive way, with energy thieves in our lives.

It was also a good opportunity to launch the 2 new book of Positive Psychotherapy: Psychovampires (translated into Romanian language) and Maxim Gongharov's book: Conflict Operationalization (English language). 10 of June was a special day when Hamid and Catherine met a group of around 50 business people and talk about psychovampires and their influence in our lives.

Romanian Summer School 2014

The 7th Romanian Summer School took place on 16 - 21 June 2014

Many thanks to all participants, the international trainers Arno Remmers, Richard Werringloer, Ekaterina Ovcharek, and Liana Don for their contributions, and to Gabriela Hum for her organizing this special event!

21st IFP World Congress of Psychotherapy in Shanghai

"Psychotherapy Contributing to Global Health"

21st World Congress of Psychotherapy organized by the IFP (International Federation for Psychotherapy),

9-11 May 2014, Shanghai, China

We wish to thank our Positive Psychotherapy group, Maxim Goncharov, John Sutton, Leon Lee, Theo Cope (see photo from left to right), for participating in and presenting at this important congress!

PUBLICATIONS

New Publication

Dr. Maxim Goncharov's book "Conflict Operationalization in Positive Psychotherapy" has been published and is available now in Russian and English language.

Glossary of Positive Psychotherapy

A gap has been filled: finally, there is a glossary of Positive Psychotherapy.

The Peseschkian Foundation is happy to announce that the Glossary of Positive Psychotherapy has been translated to several languages now. It is available in Bulgarian, Czeck, Dutch, Farsi, Georgian, German, Latvian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Twentieth Anniversary of Bulgarian Association

The Bulgarian Association of Positive Psychotherapy (BAPP) celebrates its 20th anniversary in the year 2013.

In the course of the anniversary year the Association has organized a conference with the title: "Twenty years Bulgarian Association of Positive Psychotherapy - traditions and presence"

It took place in Varna from 7 to 9 June 2013 and was a great success. Many national and international participants came to discuss, teach, learn and celebrate. Thank you for your contribution!

World Scientific-Practical Journal "Psychotherapy"

The World Scientific-Practical Journal "Psychotherapy", that has been published by the editorial of professor Alfred Pritz and professor Victor Makarov for eight years, now is newly represented in the Internet.

IFP Newsletter

The board of the International Federation for Psychotherapy would very much appreciate if you would spread the following information to all members of your society. • Many members do not know that they are automatically IFP members, please provide them with this information and the link to the website of the IFP: www.ifp.name/ • All individual members of your association have access to Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at a reduced rate. • Please forward the recently sent newsletter of the IFP to all your members. • Starting the last issue of the newsletter we provide titles of recent papers relevant for psychotherapy, including a number of papers in jounals which have open access c.q. can be freely downloaded by each of your individual member.

Last but not least, the next World Congress of Psychotherapy will be held in 2018.

International Journal of Psychotherapy (IJP)

Click here for the official website of the International Journal of Psychotherapy:

World Certificate for Psychotherapy (WCPC)

Opportunity to receive the World Certificate for Psychotherapy:

The procedure for the application is as follows:

The World Certificate for Psychotherapy will be awarded to all psychotherapists who have a psychotherapeutic training according to WCP standards. The WCP standards fully correspond to the ECP standards – which means that every ECP holder can apply for the WCPC without any problems. The WCPC will be awarded from 2007 on.

If you think that you fulfill the criteria for the certificate, please write an e-mail to headofficeworlspsyche.organd inform them that you are interested in the award of the WCPC. If you are an ECP holder in good standing the only additional thing you need to do to get the WCPC is to transfer the fee for the award. The fee is Euro 364,-- (â‚¬ 350 WCPC + â‚¬ 14 shipping) and has to be paid free of any charges for the WCP.